Yo dudes.

We're 11 days away from the First Ever New Zealand SWM Tournament and that means that in just over a week and a half, I'll be entering in 20 names to the SWMGPA Rankings! And, as this will be a National tournament, it will get Tier 1 status which will mean that your points ceiling goes from 200 to 300.

US Regionals and National Tournaments are currently the only ones that get access to this higher ceiling, so if you were involved in a Regional and want your stats put up, talk to your tournament organiser.

Also, if you play games around your LGS, you can get them ranked and into the system. If you're not sure what to do, PM me!

You can see your rankings at: http://swm.shift.net.nz/ or http://swm.trogdor.shift-tech.net/ (if the first one doesn't work). So far the Top 20 is thus:

#1 200pts - hinkbert (Pennsylvania (USA))
#2 167pts - DarthSteven
#3 162pts - rythimecheck
#4 147pts - Randy (Indiana (USA))
#5 143pts - Owen
#6 133pts - bevj21 (Taranaki (NZL))
#7 133pts - random_mike_17
#8 127pts - TheHutts (Lower Hutt (NZL))
#9 125pts - Darth Jim (Pennsylvania (USA))
#10 124pts - Luke
#11 124pts - GalacticFunk
#12 122pts - Logan1
#13 121pts - Chargers
#14 107pts - KMcNaney24
#15 105pts - Dr Daman (Lower Hutt (NZL))
#16 100pts - PhilnLil
#17 95pts - kezzamachine (Lower Hutt (NZL))
#18 95pts - TylerS
#19 93pts - bubbles101otto
#20 93pts - WacoBlaze (Indiana (USA))

Congrats Hinkbert!

Two things happen. This Kezzamachine you speak of (sounding devilishly handsome as he must) puts the local community ahead of himself at great cost of missing out on a higher ranking in much the same kind of way Mother Theresa would have opted to judge rather than participate in local SWM Tournaments where she was.

And second, he opts to play in the Vassal Regional the weekend after which will most likely fall into the higher ceiling tournament category.

Re: Henko - I know! Awesome, huh? I just emailed him that! Kiwis at #3,6,7,8,15,17 and 19...